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This document discusses various topics related to health and sanitation. It defines key terms like hygiene, personal hygiene, vectors, parasites, and different types of waste. It also explains the importance of practices like hand washing, brushing teeth, and using deodorant for personal hygiene. Diseases discussed include malaria, cholera, typhoid, and leptospirosis. The document also covers methods of controlling pests and proper disposal of waste to prevent pollution of water sources.

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Topic: Health and Sanitation

This document discusses various topics related to health and sanitation. It defines key terms like hygiene, personal hygiene, vectors, parasites, and different types of waste. It also explains the importance of practices like hand washing, brushing teeth, and using deodorant for personal hygiene. Diseases discussed include malaria, cholera, typhoid, and leptospirosis. The document also covers methods of controlling pests and proper disposal of waste to prevent pollution of water sources.

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Topic: Health and Sanitation

Name: Omari James


Class: Form 5 Arts
Subject: IS
Date: 29th October 2019
1. Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the
spread of diseases.
2. Personal hygiene refers to maintaining cleanliness of one's body and clothing to preserve
overall health and well-being. Personal hygiene is important because it envolvs keeping
your hands, head and body clean so as to stop the spread of germs and illness and to be
accepted socially.
3. Three practices supporting personal hygiene are:
i. The washing of hands with soap after going to the toilet.
ii. Brushing your teeth after each meal.
iii. By sin deodorants to control odors from sweat
4. It is recommended to clean your ears by using a clean cloth dipped in water.
5. Dental plaque is a sticky, colorless or pale-yellow film that is constantly forming on your
teeth. When saliva, food and fluids combine, plaque which contains bacteria, forms
between your teeth and along the gum line.
6. Pests are destructive insects, plants or other animal that attacks crops, food and livestock.
Two examples of hose hold pests are Cockroaches and Rats.
7. A vector is an organism that transmits a disease without suffering from it.
8. One disease carried by rats and mice is leptospirosis, and two diseases carried by house
flies are Cholera and Typhoid fever.
9. Two Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria and chikungunya.’
10. BLEH
11. Predatory fish can feed on mosquito larvae (Biological). Larvicides can be spread on
larvae to kill them (Chemical). Use mosquito nets (Mechanical)
12. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species known as
hosts and benefits by deriving nutrients of the host.
13. Two examples ae tapeworms and flatworms, they can be spread by direct contact with
pigs, mosquitos are vectors for man parasites
14. Malaria means bad air
15. It is caused by single celled microorganisms of the Plasmodium group
16. Two symptoms of malaria are Fever and Vomiting
17. Leptospirosis is treated with antibiotics, such as doxycycline or penicillin
18. Pests can be controlled by practicing good hygiene sch as cleaning up after meals, putting
al rubbish in the bin, proper disposal of food scraps in bins.
19. Farmers and gardeners don’t have to worry about poisoning themselves, their families, or
their pets when they treat their crops or plants. And when using chemicals, they can run
off and enter our ground water and water source.
20. The purification of water and proper disposal of solid waste
21. Biodegradable can be defined as materials that can be decomposed by bacteria or other
natural organisms and not be adding to pollution, while Non-Biodegradable can be
defined as a kind of substance which cannot be broken down by natural organisms and
acts as a source of pollution.
22. This is a site where non-biodegradable wastes get buried
23. Epidemic refers to the outbreak of a disease in a given country or community while
pandemic is the spread of diseases across many countries in the world
24. Four types of wastes are Domestic, Industrial, Biological, Chemical
25. Domestic- this is waste from homes which may contain both biodegradable and non-
biodegradable waste, one method of disposal is garbage sorted respectfully at dumps and
one consequence of improper disposal is the pollution of water.
26. Biogas
27. Sludge is an excellent fertilizer because it is rich in Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
28. Sewage is biological waste
29. Latrine pits should not be dug near water sources because it may seep into and
contaminate our water, which reduces its quality.
30. This is a process by which a body of water acquires a high concentration of nutrients like
phosphates and nitrates which promotes the excessive growth of algae.
31. Excess levels of nitrates in water can create conditions that make it difficult for aquatic
insects or fish to survive. If algae have an unlimited source of nitrates, it can cause
extreme fluctuations in dissolved oxygen, degrading the oxygen quality and aquatic life
will die.

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